You're a Busy and Experienced Facilitator
You're great in the training room... but you don't have time to think or plan ahead
You regularly facilitate workshops or training sessions and are confident working with groups. You might be an associate trainer delivering programmes for different organisations, an in-house facilitator delivering internal programmes, or even a coach who is increasingly working with groups rather than just individuals. Your facilitation skills are genuinely valuable, but this means you are stuck in the training room. You lack opportunities to develop yourself (and your services) further.
Your strengths
• Strong facilitation and communication skills
• Ability to read the room and adapt in the moment
• Confident managing group dynamics and discussions
• Adaptable to manage different audiences
The common challenge
Your main constraint is time and headspace to plan, design and develop your solutions. You're delivering sessions regularly, and probably spending a lot of time travelling, which means new briefs arrive with limited preparation time, materials need adapting quickly, and there's little space to design anything from scratch. You're incredibly versatile but constantly adjusting solutions 'in the moment' is exhausting, and because you have no time to do much beyond the training room, you're reliant on consultancies or managers booking your services.
Typical questions you might have at this stage
• How do I maintain quality when there's no time to prepare properly?
• Where can I find good resources I can adapt quickly to enhance what I'm given?
• How do I find time to design my own courses and develop my skills?
• Who can I ask to sense-check the approaches I'm asked to deliver?
Quick Tips
• Develop a reliable session structure you can reuse across different topics, and just slot in different topics/activities
• Build a small library of activities and facilitation techniques you know work
• Avoid redesigning every session from scratch - adapt and update where possible
What might help you?
Facilitators at this stage often benefit from reliable resources and peer support that help maintain quality without increasing preparation time. You will benefit from some smart strategies to design/adapt courses quickly. Following a robust structure and MASTERing your Training Design will allow you to design effective sessions quickly, even if the brief is limited. Having a bank of ready-written materials will save you hours, and enable you to respond to new requests quickly. Having exercises, resources and a peer group on-tap to help you to refine and adapt in the flow of work can be a real life-saver! That's what our VIP community offers.
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